Sid_6.7:I work for a certain government agency, the acronym of which rhymes with FEMA. There are a frightening number of people I work with who are preppers. You know, people working for the agency meant to prevent that kind of sh*t? Yeah.

They love to discuss how they've prepared and where, many of them less than 20 miles from my home. Like you said, maybe they shouldn't be so vocal. Sh*t hits the fan, and I'll just try and hostile take-over the stuff they've told me about in detail.

/commenting here as a private citizen, naturally

I dunno. If I spent all my work hours focused on disasters and how much damage they could wreak I'd probably be a prepper too. It's gotta be a little depressing sitting at work always thinking "ok, so what are all the bad things that could happen if a hurricane hit this way and destroyed all this infrastructure?"

The first rule of surviving the apocalypse is that nobody knows that you have a shelter stocked with food and supplies. Since everyone in the area will know about this place, and if you buy it and stock up they'll know about you, you won't last a week before the hordes of survivors who haven't got huge supplies of food, water, medicine etc manage to break in and ransack the place.